Steve Rosenbloom

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Steve Rosenbloom is a sports columnist and blogger who has been with the Tribune since 1996. No one can believe he’s still here, most of all him. Steve co-hosts sports movie nights with Tribune film critic Michael Phillips because they’re fun and they often let Steve pick the movie, starting with “Slap Shot." Steve has written many “Faker’s Guides to ..." that you can buy in poster form, and Steve wishes you would. Steve is featured in daily sports videos despite having a face for radio. Steve loves a woman he calls Luscious, and just you never mind how she got that name, mister. Steve also enjoys cigars and pinot noir, but has developed a recent taste for red blends, if you’re buying. Steve likes show tunes and still tears up at the end of “Field of Dreams."

Recent Articles

Landing on Snark Place: The Bulls, who have spent the season trying to tank, entered the All-Star Break trailing seven teams for the league’s worst record. The Blackhawks, who have spent the season trying to play for the Stanley Cup, entered the weekend trailing seven teams for the league’s worst...

It is a far, far snarkier thing that I do, than I have ever done: Joe Maddon, the Cubs manager whose hair apparently was painted auburn, unveiled his theme for the season, and coincidentally it was about painting, and of course he had visual aids. In fact, his theme pretty much is visual aids....

Unless Jake Arrieta pulls a Dexter Fowler for one more year, the Cubs said goodbye to their former ace when they gave Yu Darvish a six-year, $126 million hello. I still expect Arrieta to get paid, maybe not as much as Darvish, but still some kind of generational money. The question is why that...

The Blackhawks continue to find glorious and spectacular ways to embarrass themselves. So, congrats to them on that. On Monday night in Arizona, the Hawks face-planted to a new low, losing 6-1 to the Coyotes, the worst team in the league and the team with the worst goal differential in the NHL....

For a season and a half or two seasons starting in 2015, Jake Arrieta was the greatest pitcher in baseball. He was Pedro in 2000. Gibson in ‘68. Koufax in ’61-’66 inclusive. Arrieta did not start out as the ace of aces, but he finished there in 2015, winning the Cy Young Award after accomplishing...

The good thing about the Cubs signing free-agent ace Yu Darvish is they don’t have to face him in the playoffs. Good thing, indeed, after Darvish fired 6 1/3 innings of one-run, six-hit, seven-strikeout ball in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series in October. This year, then, after...

It was a snark and stormy night: As the NBA trade deadline played out Thursday, it became clear that getting a first-round pick for Nikola Mirotic ranks as no worse than the second-best acquisition leading up to the league’s yard sale. Imagine, the Bulls being quick and smart. Gotta say this: The...

If the more than 100 baseball players who remain unsigned just ahead of the opening of spring training are looking to place blame, they can start with themselves. If their signed colleagues want to boycott something, it seems like it ought to be their union leadership for recommending the collective...